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Date:      Fri, 23 May 2003 15:46:31 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        nate@root.org
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/i386 proc-i386.sgml 
Message-ID:  <20030523.154631.14977907.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030523144156.E97806@root.org>
References:  <200305231727.h4NHRWf9072169@repoman.freebsd.org> <200305232133.h4NLXfkA029483@harmony.village.org> <20030523144156.E97806@root.org>

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            Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> writes:
: On Fri, 23 May 2003, Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message <200305231727.h4NHRWf9072169@repoman.freebsd.org> "Bruce A. Mah" writes:
: > :   I'm lost in a maze of twisty little tunables, all different.
: > :   The ACPI-disabling hint goes into device.hints, not loader.conf.
: >
: > Actually, it can go in either place.
: 
: Sorry for the misdirection then.  At one point, I swear you had to instead
: do "set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1" in loader.conf and that the format he used
: (key=value) was only valid in device.hints.
: 
: Why do we have device.hints if it's just a subset of the loader.conf
: functionality?

Hysterical raisons.  I don't recall anymore.

Warner



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